Blog Grid

Joscha Bach - GPT-3: Is AI Deepfaking Understanding?

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September 11, 2020

Exciting progress in Artificial Intelligence - Joscha Bach

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August 11, 2020

Ethical Progress, AI & the Ultimate Utility Function - Joscha Bach

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August 11, 2020

The Grand Challenge of Developing Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Joscha Bach

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August 11, 2020

Cognitive Biases & In-Group Convergences - Joscha Bach

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August 11, 2020

AI, Consciousness, Science, Art & Understanding - Joscha Bach

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August 11, 2020

Professor Peter Doherty - COVID19 Pandemic: Research & Action

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August 11, 2020

Gero, Singapore AI startup bags $2.2m to create a drug that helps extend human life

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August 6, 2020

Posthumanism - Pramod Nayar

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July 24, 2020

How science fails

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June 10, 2020

The Problem of Feral Cats

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June 5, 2020

John Wilkins - Comprehension and Compression

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May 2, 2020

The Age of A.I. - empowering narratives or accurate forecasts?

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April 16, 2020

Anders Sandberg - Freeman Dyson, Galactic Megastructures, Physical Eschatology & the Fermi Paradox

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March 17, 2020

Event: Responding to the Replication Crisis & Achieving Public Trust in Science - Martin Bush

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February 17, 2020

Conference: AI & Human Enhancement - Understanding the Future - Early 2020

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September 29, 2019

Event: Stelarc - Contingent & Contestable Futures

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September 28, 2019

Denis Odinokov - Conquering Cross-Linking for Biomedical Longevity

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August 14, 2019

Jim Mellon - Investing in the Age of Longevity

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August 14, 2019

Judith Campisi - Senolytics for Healthy Longevity

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June 25, 2019

Cancelling the Apocalypse - Avoiding Civilisational Collapse

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June 17, 2019

“Biomimicry”, a Documentary

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June 16, 2019

Why did Sam Altman join OpenAI as CEO?

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May 20, 2019

Reason - Philosophy Of Anti Aging: Ethics, Research & Advocacy

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May 14, 2019

Jerry Shay - The Telomere Theory of Ageing - Interview At Undoing Ageing, Berlin, 2019

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May 7, 2019

Keith Comito on Undoing Ageing

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May 7, 2019

Future Day Melbourne 2019

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March 13, 2019

The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine - Scott Aaronson

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February 11, 2019

The Winding Road to Quantum Supremacy - Scott Aaronson

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February 8, 2019

Cognitive Biases & In-Group Convergences with Joscha Bach

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December 14, 2018

The Generative Universe Hypothesis

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December 13, 2018

Why Technology Favors a Singleton over a Tyranny

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December 11, 2018

Uncovering the Mysteries of Affective Neuroscience - the Importance of Valence Research with Mike Johnson

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November 16, 2018

Physicalism & Materialism - John Wilkins

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October 29, 2018

On Consciousness, Qualia, Valence & Intelligence with Mike Johnson

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October 27, 2018

Ethics, Qualia Research & AI Safety with Mike Johnson

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October 26, 2018

Science, Mindfulness & the Urgency of Reducing Suffering - Christof Koch

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October 26, 2018

Towards the Abolition of Suffering Through Science

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October 26, 2018

The End of Aging

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October 1, 2018

Michio Kaku on the Holy Grail of Nanotechnology

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September 29, 2018

Aubrey de Grey - Towards the Future of Regenerative Medicine

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September 8, 2018

Surviving the Zombie Cell Apocalypse - Oisín Biotechs Stephen Hilbert

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September 8, 2018

Antispecism & Compassionate Stewardship - David Pearce

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July 2, 2018

The Antispeciesist Revolution - read by David Pearce

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July 2, 2018

CLAIRE - a new European confederation for AI research

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June 26, 2018

Moral Enhancement - Are we morally equipped to deal with humanities grand challenges? Anders Sandberg

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April 21, 2018

The Great Filter, a possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox - interview with Robin Hanson

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April 16, 2018

The Amazing James Randi - Skepticism & the Singularity!

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April 5, 2018

Another Milestone in Achieving Brain Preservation & Whole Brain Emulation

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March 16, 2018

The Point of View of the Universe - Peter Singer

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July 4, 2017

One Big Misconception About Consciousness - Christof Koch

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May 26, 2017

Amazing Progress in Artificial Intelligence - Ben Goertzel

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April 3, 2017

The future of neuroscience and understanding the complexity of the human mind - Brains and Computers

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March 21, 2017

Building Brains - How to build physical models of brain circuits in silicon

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March 21, 2017

Consciousness in Biological and Artificial Brains - Prof Christof Koch

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March 21, 2017

David Brin on Marching for Science and the Future

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March 4, 2017

Future Day Melbourne 2017

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February 25, 2017

Can we build AI without losing control over it? - Sam Harris

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February 25, 2017

Marching for Science with John Wilkins - a perspective from Philosophy of Science

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February 23, 2017

March for Science! Interview with Michael Shermer

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February 22, 2017

Ethics In An Uncertain World - Australian Humanist Convention 2017

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February 14, 2017

Should "Work Ethic" be a timeless measure of human worth?

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February 8, 2017

March for Science Melbourne

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February 3, 2017

The Simulation Argument - How likely is it that we are living in a simulation?

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October 31, 2016

All Aboard The Ship of Theseus with Keith Wiley

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October 26, 2016

Why don't we see more larger brained species in our ecosystem?

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October 7, 2016

Narratives, Values & Progress - Anders Sandberg

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September 28, 2016

Longevity Day with Aubrey de Grey!

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September 27, 2016

Longevity Day Melbourne 2016

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September 27, 2016

Elon Musk on the Future of AI

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September 19, 2016

Can We Improve the Science of Solving Global Coordination Problems? Anders Sandberg

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September 18, 2016

Anders Sandberg -The Technological Singularity

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September 16, 2016

Heavy-Tailed Distributions: What Lurks Beyond Our Intuitions?

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September 16, 2016

Zombie Rights

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September 15, 2016

Extending Life is Not Enough

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September 15, 2016

Sam Harris on AI Implications -The Ruben Report

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September 14, 2016

Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence with Aubrey de Grey

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September 13, 2016

The Quantified Self with Anders Sandberg (in under 2 mins)

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September 6, 2016

AI: The Story So Far - Stuart Russell

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September 6, 2016

Suffering, and Progress in Ethics - Peter Singer

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August 31, 2016

A Non-trivial Pursuit of Happiness - Paradise Engineering with David Pearce 🙂

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August 29, 2016

Review of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari - Steve Fuller

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August 26, 2016

NASA Provides Free Access to All Published Research

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August 19, 2016

'Wake Enhancement': Is sleep better than medicine?

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August 13, 2016

Lawrence Krauss, Ben Goertzel and Steve Omohundro on the Perils of Prediction

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August 11, 2016

Buddhism, and the Enlightenment values of discovering What Is?

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August 4, 2016

Is Infinity Real?

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July 9, 2016

Singularity Skepticism or Advocacy - to what extent is it warranted?

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July 8, 2016

Grand Unifying Theories in Physics with Sundance

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June 30, 2016

Finding Value & Beauty in Fundamental Physics - Interview with Physicist Sundance

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June 30, 2016

Nick Bostrom: Why Focus on Existential Risk related to Machine Intelligence?

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June 14, 2016

Conference: Thinking Machines in the Physical World

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June 8, 2016

Application Driven Science vs Curiosity Inspired Science

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May 29, 2016

Should We Re-Engineer Ourselves to Phase Out our Violent Nature?

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April 12, 2016

Materialism vs Physicalism (and Strawsonian Physicalism) with David Pearce

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April 10, 2016

Global Catastrophic Risks - Jamais Cascio

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April 6, 2016

Peter Singer & David Pearce on Utilitarianism, Bliss & Suffering

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April 4, 2016

Is there a Meaningful Future for Non-Optimal Moral Agents?

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April 1, 2016

The long-term future of AI (and what we can do about it) : Daniel Dewey at TEDxVienna

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March 20, 2016

Brian Greene on Artificial Intelligence, the Importance of Fundamental Physics, Alien Life, and the Possible Future of Our Civilization

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March 14, 2016